The eerie tune of Greensleeves blasting from the tinny speakers atop a Mr Whippy ice cream van is one heard all around Australia during summer. But the divisive tune, and its van, almost didn't make it to Kalgoorlie....

Kalgoorlie photographer Dan Roissetter recently took a trip inside the gold dome sitting on top of the Kalgoorlie courthouse, and believes he was the first professional photographer to do so since JJ Dwyer in 1904....

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An oral historian is bringing to light a period in Lithgow's industrial history he describes as a 'pretty horrible time' but one which gave birth to a collection of colourful song, poems and stories.
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Each Thursday in a back-alley warehouse, volunteers come together to meticulously clean, repair and catalogue artefacts collected from the remnants of a Chinese temple that once stood proud in the Cairns CBD....

Famed historian Sir Richard Evans has called for the British Royal Archives to be opened in order to find out more about the Royal Family's attitude of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Recently released footage showing the Queen as a child, raising her arm in that well known gesture of a Nazi salute, ...